Illinois residents have started receiving checks in connection with a class-action lawsuit settlement involving Snapchat.
If a company is found to have violated Illinois law, citizens can collect civil penalties up to $5,000 per violation compounded by the number of people affected and days involved. No state regulatory agency is involved in enforcement.in a class-action suit alleging it violated residents' rights by collecting and storing digital scans of their faces without permission. As of August, a $35 million settlement had been reached in the case. That settlement was eventually approved in November.
Snapchat Inc.'s settlement was reached after a court did not find in favor of either the company nor the plaintiffs, meaning the social media platform did not admit fault., which was designed to require notice and consent before collecting biometric information used to identify people," a Snap spokesperson told NBC 5 in a statement in August.
"We deeply value the privacy of our community, and Snapchat Lenses do not collect biometric data that can be used to identify a specific person, or engage in facial identification. For example, Lenses can be used to identify an eye or a nose as being part of a face, but cannot identify an eye or a nose as belonging to any specific person. Moreover, even the limited data that is used to power Lenses is never sent to Snap's servers – the data never leaves the user's mobile device.
While many reported receiving their funds via direct deposit, those who receive checks will then have 120 days to cash them.
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